Part 5
[_And ever, in thy favour’d bound_,] Applying the whole scenery around these lodges to Limbrook.
Footnote 77:
[_When stoops the stranger ewe to drink_;] Sheep were not depastur’d on the Forest.
Footnote 78:
[_The tracks of their remember’d deer_,] It is said that the Wolf-tracks may yet be seen in some parts which those animals frequented, in Ireland, centuries ago.
Footnote 79:
[_Monster of the world_] French Revolution.
Footnote 80:
[_Emma’s art_] Miss Emma Sneyd, of Byrkley Lodge, has produced some beautiful landscapes and drawings of the Forest scenes.
Footnote 81:
[“_Here Gisborne penn’d his moral lay_] The character and writings both in verse and prose of the Rev. Thomas Gisborne, of Yoxall Lodge, are equally well known and admired: the public has lately called for a seventh edition of his “Walks in a Forest.”
Footnote 82:
[_Gigantic hollies!_] Particular groups of hollies of great age and size are here alluded to, as in _Needwood Forest p. 19_. Having been lopped for the deer in winter, (the upper part of their remaining trunks and branches being again cloathed with their fresh ever-green shoots) they had somewhat the appearance of ruins.
Footnote 83:
[_Fair Virgin!_] The Hon. Catharine Venables Vernon died in the summer of 1775.
Footnote 84:
[_Hark the same bell!—take, sister bier_,] The Hon. Martha Venables Vernon died while the Author was writing this poem.
Footnote 85:
[_Yes, Holly-Bush!_] Formerly the residence of the Author, where many alterations have since been made and are making.
Footnote 86:
[_Inland look_;] In contradistinction to its former forest character, in which sense this word is repeatedly used by Shakespear in “As you like it,” though there applied to persons.
Footnote 87:
[_Unambitious brow &c._] Needwood Forest p. 8.——[_Favourite Tree Sycamore_;] Needwood Forest p. 10.
Footnote 88:
[_Hall, whose kind arm &c._] T. K. Hall, Esq. has purchased Holly Bush with a considerable portion of the adjacent Forest land, the scenery of which he intends to preserve.
Footnote 89:
[_Revered Swilcar_;] Needwood Forest p. 41, 42. &c.
Footnote 90:
[_Horrid!—I see thee far!_] The present appearance of Swilcar oak over a broad and hitherto uncultivated part of the late Forest, where not another tree remains, is very striking. He is fenced off from a new road.
Footnote 91:
[_And some, with strength &c._] Alluding to the complimentary verses printed with Needwood Forest, and others afterwards sent to the author.
Footnote 92:
[_Yon prison’d cliffs_] The banks and cliffs of the Forest, hanging towards the river Dove, are now fenced in, though otherwise left in their former state.
Footnote 93:
Milton, in Comus, makes Naiades the plural of Naiad, “amid the flowery-kirtled Naiades.”
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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